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[BBC News: 2009-02-14]

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The court trying alleged perpetrators of the Rwandan genocide has expressed its shock at the death in an air crash of a top expert on the 1994 massacres. Alison Des Forges, 66, was among 50 people killed in a plane crash on Thursday near Buffalo, New York state. A spokesman for the the UN tribunal for Rwanda called her death "a great loss", said AFP news agency. Ms Des Forges was an expert adviser to the court on . . .

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